![]() ![]() The thing is, Snyder was also “a man who could talk anybody into anything.” ![]() “He was 40 years old, prematurely gray, wore a striped seersucker suit, and expelled paralyzing clouds of smoke from his illegal Cuban cigars,” Deitch later wrote in his book How to Succeed in Animation. And then he met the slick-talking William L. He rose through the ranks at UPA and other studios in 1950s New York - until his career hit a dead end. The story starts with a man named Gene Deitch. Even during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Tom and Jerry cartoons were secretly coming from behind the Iron Curtain. But the history of that all-American duo isn’t quite as all-American as most believe. When you think of American cartoon characters, a few names quickly spring to mind.
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